Imprisonment and Custody of Offenders Ordinance 1998 (CKI) (Cth)

Territory of COCOS (KEELING) IslanDS

Imprisonment and Custody of Offenders Ordinance 1998

No. 4 of 1998

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following ordinance under the Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955. Dated 12 November 1998.

WILLIAM DEANE Governor-General By His Excellency's Command,

IAN MACDONALD Minister for Regional Services, Territories and Local Government

Territory of COCOS (KEELING) IslanDS

Imprisonment and Custody of Offenders Ordinance 1998

No. 4 of 19981

made under the

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Act 1955

An ordinance to amend the law of the Territory relating to imprisonment and custody of offenders

Contents

Page

1 Name of ordinance 2 2 Commencement 2 3 Amendment of certain other laws of the Territory 2

Schedule 1 Amendments of Territory laws 3

Part 1 Amendment of Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996 (W.A.) (C.K.I.) 3 Part 2 Amendments of Justices Act 1902 (W.A.) (C.K.I.) 3 Part 3 Amendment of Prisons Act 1981 (W.A.) (C.K.I.) 4 Part 4 Amendments of Young Offenders Act 1994 (W.A.) (C.K.I.) 5

1 Name of ordinance

This ordinance is the Imprisonment and Custody of Offenders Ordinance 1998.

2 Commencement

This ordinance commences on gazettal.

3 Amendment of certain other laws of the Territory

Schedule 1 amends: (a) the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996 (W.A.) (C.K.I.); and (b) the Justices Act 1902 (W.A.) (C.K.I.); and (c) the Prisons Act 1981 (W.A.) (C.K.I.); and (d) the Young Offenders Act 1994 (W.A.) (C.K.I.).

Schedule 1 Amendments of Territory laws

(section 3)

Part 1 Amendment of Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996 (W.A.) (C.K.I.)

[1] After subsection 24 (1)

insert

(1A) To avoid doubt, the authorized hospital, declared place, detention centre or prison need not be in the Territory.